FRIDAY MANNA 21 FEBRUARY ‘25

Dr. Daniel O. C. | Feb 21, 2025

“CHRISTIANS AND TIME MANAGEMENT!”

Saints of God Most High, hear God’s word for you today:

“Behave wisely toward outsiders, making full use of every opportunity” (Colossians 4:5).

Behave yourselves wisely, living prudently and with discretion in your relations with those of the outside world, the non-Christians, making the very most of the time and seizing and buying up the opportunity.

CHRISTIANS AND TIME MANAGEMENT

He who kills time injures eternity. Do not let yesterday use up too much of today.
Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals wounds, runs out, and tells.
One thing you can learn by watching the clock is that it passes the time by keeping its hands busy. Management begins with you, your personality, skill and ability.

Managing yourself is investing your time in accomplishing the most of what God wants you to do. It begins with effective and purposeful living. This involves a plan, organization, and management of your time and life.

There are 24 hours each day. If you can analyse all that you do during these hours, then you can know how richly or poorly your time is managed. When you analyse all that you did within the given 24 hours, you will be able to eliminate the following time robbing activities.

TIME ROBBING ACTIVITIES

Interruption such as uninvited guests and visitors who came in without prior notice
Gossip and unlimited conversations.
Sickness due to lack of rest

Unnecessary telephone conversation
Unnecessary visitation that wastes our time and life

It is important too that we organize activities, whether in the home, office, or church, to meet the principles of good planning.

SOME GOOD PLANNING PRINCIPLES

Setting Priorities
This means arranging our activities according to importance.
We must differentiate between urgent and important too.

Have A Schedule
This helps us to take inventory of what we have spent our time on.

Discipline
This helps us to do what we have actually planned.

Motivation
Accomplishing our schedule task motivates us to do more.

Inventory
Having a regular time to review our plan and progress.
To manage our time effectively, we must learn to finish what we have to do before other things but never delay.

Take a few minutes out of your schedule to rest and endeavour to talk less.
Personal management is being sensitive to God’s leading.

Are you identifying the goals of your life and home? You should depend on the Holy Ghost to give you understanding and steps to accomplishing those goals. (John 15:5 / 16:13 / Psalms 25:9 / 48:14)

Be on your guard for time waits for nobody.

Shalom and good morning.

Dr. Daniel O. C.